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When we called the White House a daycare, this is not what we meant.

It is difficult to even know where to start on this one. I know I have been quiet a while, not intentionally ignoring the world, just working on deadlines that have consumed my time. You know, my day job. But this is so egregious I have to set work aside for a few moments. I cannot allow this to pass and be swept away by the next tidal wave of stupidity this administration throws out to consume and dull our sense of morality and justice.

It has become our nation’s policy, under the “Trump” administration, to kidnap immigrant children from their parents. The parents are told the children are going for a bath, and are carted away in horror and fear to a separate concentration camp, without the consent of their parents or even knowing if they will ever see their family again. Maybe calling it a concentration camp ruffles your feathers, feels a little too uncomfortable. Maybe you’d feel better with ‘internment camp’. Well, it sure as hell isn’t a summer or day camp. It isn’t government sponsored daycare, either.

By the admission of the administration, this tactic has been employed to discourage “mothers” from entering our country with their children. It is punishment of the cruelest form. Oh, but to hear Trump talk, he says this “law” is the fault of Democrats. If only those pesky democrats would break down and approve his wall, then there would be no need for kidnapping children.

Yes, I did say kidnapping. That’s what it is when you take a child from their parents and then demand something before you give them back. This is not the fault of Democrats. And it is not a law. This administration, and the GOP in totality for harboring them, is responsible 100% for their own actions. This is not a law, it is a policy of the Trump administration. It is a scare and control tactic. Trump behaves like an abusive spouse, telling Democrats it is their fault this is happening, if only they would give him what he wanted, then he wouldn’t have to do terrible things.

Trump is responsible. The buck stops there, with him. He most certainly can change that policy, since it is his administration which enacted it to begin with. Take a better look at reality. We were not stealing children and locking them up in abandoned Walmarts or tent camps on military bases under any other administration in our history. Oh wait… that isn’t really correct, now is it?

Our government kidnapped tens of thousands, possible many more, Native American children in an attempt to stamp out their heritage, culture, religion, and identity. But this isn’t the same, right? These are criminals, right? They broke the law, right?

There is no justification here. Who the hell are we becoming? We are not the shining city set upon the hill, the place of hope. We are degrading into a failed experiment. The GOP is responsible for this atrocity. They are responsible for holding children ransom to obtain congressional votes for policies which could not win favor on the merit of their value. This is quite literally the most appalling and disturbing thing I have seen from our government in my lifetime. There is no scandal in modern history more disturbing than the bluntness of this, the complete concession to use horror tactics directly against children for political expedience.

The United States is not, nor has it ever been, a perfect nation. We have our share of atrocities we have committed, our own form of Imperialism and Expansionism. But eventually, we began to evolve. The Great Melting Pot became the home of refugees, immigrants from every corner of the world. And though painfully slow, we began to change, to better ourselves. We took steps, sometimes teetering baby ones and sometimes giant leaps, toward the realization of a truly equal society of acceptance and tolerance. Sometimes we landed poorly on those leaps and twisted an ankle, setting progress back a bit, but overall, we kept a forward momentum.

Right now, we are no longer looking forward to becoming the best version of ourselves. Our nation has turned its back on that progress and turned firmly around. We are no better today than we were when we stole Native American children from their families and tribes. Seems like we can’t get past repeating our history of stealing brown people’s children.

If this state sponsored kidnapping of children doesn’t bother you, then you are someone I really don’t want to know. If this doesn’t bring you some element of shame, then your sense of morality is purely corrupt. I cannot fathom supporting any policy so cruel, inhumane, and deeply sinister in conception, implementation, and intent.

And Trump is trying to pretend like he has no choice. There is always a choice. You, Trump, chose this path, chose to enact this policy, and you can certainly choose to end it.

Please, please, take a moment to act, to speak out, to demand we be better than this.